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339.1 | Here's mine | ORION::HERBERT | Aim above morality | Fri Mar 20 1987 12:21 | 15 |
| - By 1990, I predict that many cities across the United States will
have an abundance of psychic-related businesses, situated on nearly
every major corner. I am relating this to the current frequency of
liquor stores in Southern California, where there are liquor stores
on nearly every major corner. I think the quantity of liquor stores
will be challenged by psychic businesses, and eventually (perhaps by
1995), most will be replaced by psychic businesses. I think the
current psychic interest is more than just a fad. I think it's the
wave of our future.
- I'll join the long list of earthquake predictors: I predict that
Southern California will have a major, devastating earthquake in 1988.
(Maybe mid-late part of the year.)
*Madam* Jerri (doesn't seem :^) to fit)
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339.2 | Delphic Utterance | ERASER::KALLIS | Hallowe'en should be legal holiday | Mon Mar 23 1987 08:10 | 20 |
|
Dark black clouds above a plain
Will bring the waters, more than rain.
The leader of Blues will change a place,
And architects will be in grace.
The dance will grow, the birds will wheel,
The sun will shine on much that's real;
And rocks will move, and tunes so loud
Will help disperse a growing crowd.
Over the East the moon will rise
To bring a change to startled eyes.
Accounts will close for a new start;
And strength will come to a faltering heart.
The laurels grow: and it is so.
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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339.3 | THE TRANSITION IS NOW | YAZOO::REINKE | | Tue Mar 24 1987 15:54 | 8 |
| I don't have much to say beyond a firm belief that we are in a
transition between ages, and that it is very important to become
and remain centered.
Donald Reinke
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339.4 | eaney maeney jelly beaney | MASTER::EPETERSON | | Wed Mar 25 1987 16:12 | 10 |
| I have had a premonition for nearly 20 years that something
will radically change my life for the better the year that
I turn 40. I really can't be more specific than that, but
I have felt this way since I was in my early twenties. I
even got a fortune cookie that said "The year that you are
40 will be the best of your life." and that was *after* I
had the premonition. It must be true. Who in their right
mind would argue with a fortune cookie (now I ask you!).
Anyhow, I am going to be fourty this week. Think I'll start
playing the lottery.
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339.5 | 40 candles | CGHUB::SECRETARY | | Tue Mar 31 1987 12:09 | 9 |
| Re 4:
I predict that you had a very happy birthday. Keep us posted
on any radical changes in your life.
best wishes,
Janice
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339.6 | In the year 2525... if man is still alive | BIGMAC::PETER | I have no mouth and I must Scream | Tue Mar 31 1987 12:31 | 17 |
| re .4: I got a fortune cookie once that read "pay the check and get
OUT!"
As for the future...
In the year 1999, the Lunar 'Craters' will trounce the Boston
Celtics for the NBA championship. The score will be 997 to 552.
In the year 2020, the transporter beam will replace all
conventional modes of transportation (I can't wait) and politians
will become extinct (I can't wait for that either).
In the year 2100, the Red Sox will finally win the whole ball of wax
and that will be the end of organized sports (crime?).
Pete ;^{)
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339.7 | Hope I'm wrong... | BEES::PARE | | Tue Mar 31 1987 14:34 | 2 |
| I predict a major economic upheaval of catastrophic proportion
within the next five years.
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339.8 | Boo, Hiss | GRECO::MISTOVICH | | Tue Apr 07 1987 13:52 | 4 |
339.9 | Remember, you heard it here first! | COLORS::HARDY | | Tue Apr 07 1987 18:34 | 8 |
| When bit-mapped workstations with iconographic interfaces
become so common that children learn to think and communicate
in abstract symbols before they learn the alphabet, Cthulhu
will awaken, rise from beneath the Pacific and take up residence
in Silicon Valley.
Pat
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339.10 | results :-P | ERASER::KALLIS | Make Hallowe'en a National holiday. | Thu Oct 08 1987 10:42 | 6 |
| Re .2:
I think I could claim credit for predicting the California earthquakes.
:-)
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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339.11 | Yeah, Steve, you did it! | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Thu Oct 08 1987 18:02 | 38 |
| re: -.1
Just about anyone could predict a California earthquake and
be "right," don't you think? Just like predicting darkness at night.
If you want a little more "accuracy," maybe this will impress
you and maybe it won't: back in December Lazaris gave his year-end
talk (wherein he predicts the energy for the coming year in terms
of emotions and events...and for years and decades to come) and
he also had an evening workshop I believe. I'm not sure about that.
In November he had his final two-day of the year where some similar
topics come up. Anyway, in the midst of all of that somewhere,
he told us something I have never heard Lazaris mention before (whether
in a workshop or on tape) and that was that California would be
experiencing three major earthquakes within the following two years;
each succeeding earthquake would be larger than the previous and
would take place in a major population center of California with
both loss of life and extensive property damage. He added that
the San Andreas was 12 inches "out-of-alignement" and needed to
correct itself. He also said that this alignment could take place
through lots of small earthquakes (which we should be grateful for)
or larger, more destructive ones. He could not say precisely which
of the events would occur because, after all, we create our reality
and we had the power to make the future different than that. Based
on the current energies at that time, however, that was his prediction.
I see last week's earthquake as earthquake number 1 in this
scenario. Please note that Lazaris' organization, Concept:Synergy,
moved to Lake Arrowhead and Beverly Hills this past June. They
are all very much aware of the earthquake potential but they believed
that they could create a reality whereby they would not be directly,
harmfully affected.
So, SK,J...don't give yourself a broken arm.
(I don't like the symbols the notesfiles uses because one has
to look them up every time somebody uses one, so...insert a little
grin right here.)
Frederick
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339.12 | There will be an...earthquake - that's the ticket! | DICKNS::KLAES | Angels in the Architecture. | Fri Oct 09 1987 09:08 | 10 |
| Skepticism time -
Why wasn't any "advance prediction" of the LA earthquake made,
in reference to this Notesfile?
I'm always amused at these "predictions" which seem to be right
on the money *after* the fact...
Larry
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339.13 | A slight fault? | TOPDOC::SLOANE | Bruce is on the loose | Fri Oct 09 1987 10:10 | 13 |
| Re: .11
In major earthquakes, the maximum amount of movement along the fault
line is of the order of 10 feet or more. (The main movement may occur
at depth, so you don't always see the resulting fault scarp line.
I don't know the figures for the recent L. A. quake.
A misalignment of 12 inches, as proposed by Lazarus (or is it
Lazuris? How do you spell his name?) would not cause a major quake.
This may sound like nit-picking, but credibility is built on accuracy.
-bs
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339.14 | One out of three... What about the other two? | HPSCAD::DDOUCETTE | Common Sense Rules! | Fri Oct 09 1987 10:27 | 7 |
| Re: Lazarus Earthquake prediction.
Okay, he got one right, and he also said another two within two
years. . . I'm willing to wait and see, but I'll try to avoid the
West coast for a while. ;-)
Dave
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339.15 | anyoldmancy | ERASER::KALLIS | Make Hallowe'en a National holiday. | Fri Oct 09 1987 10:59 | 52 |
| Okay, okay! For those who don't understand the significance of
what "delphic utterance" means, and who _insist_ on ignoring smiley-
or tongue-in-cheek faces/icons, let me "legitimate" my prediction
of the California Earthquake:
>Dark black clouds above a plain
>Will bring the waters, more than rain.
>The leader of Blues will change a place,
>And architects will be in grace.
"Dark black clouds" obviously refers to am impending disaster; "more
than rain" means that the "waters" in question are "humors," that
is, emotions rather than purely naturtal phenomena. "The leader
of the Blues" obviously refers to the Chief of Police, who naturally
located a command post during the emergency. "Architects will be
in grace," certainly for the later, earthquake-resistant designs.
>The dance will grow, the birds will wheel,
>The sun will shine on much that's real;
>And rocks will move, and tunes so loud
>Will help disperse a growing crowd.
Naturally, in an earthquake, the buildings dance; birds, being
disturbed, will take to the relative safety of the air. Rocks --
indeed whole local sections of tectonic plates -- do indeed move
during an earthquake. The "tunes" -- that is, the music of the
spheres (i.e., natural forces) of the aftershocks made people scatter
after they started to regroup after the initial shocks had died
down.
>Over the East the moon will rise
>To bring a change to startled eyes.
>Accounts will close for a new start;
>And strength will come to a faltering heart.
This takes place a short number of days before the penumbral eclipse;
surely, both the moon (darkening slightly) and the landscape reflect
change (in both cases, transitory). The insurance companies will
vacate those accounts with earthquake damage, and many small businesses
are failing because of the earthquake, but low-cost Federal (disaster)
loans will frop up many concerns that are on the verge of bankruptcy.
And there you have it. :-D
For those who want to come this far, a Delphic Utterance is one
that, like lots of prophecies, is sufficiently vague that it can
be used to "predict" a lot of things.
So if you bought my "prediction" noncritically, have I got a deal
for you on the Brooklyn Bridge!
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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339.16 | How do you foretell foretellers? | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Fri Oct 09 1987 19:35 | 31 |
| re: .13
God, I hate information like that! (10 ft vs. 12 inches is quite
a difference!) (Insert sulk face here.) In "truth", I'm not
positive that Lazaris said 12 inches, but that's what I seem to
remember. Another point, here...I mentioned 3 different groups
of people (one group at the two-day workshop, another at the
question/answer session that night and the last at the Sunday
workshop in December) and what surprised me was that he had
mentioned the earthquakes during the 2-day (I believe) but for some
reason didn't mention it in the less intimate workshop later. I
wondered why at the time...was it because the energy had already
shifted somehow (our energy, that is) so that it wouldn't occur
or was it that perhaps he didn't want to alarm the people in the
second group? I may never know the answer to that one.
re: .12
One reason why in this case the information may not have been
made well-known is that (as I recalled overnight) it was given during
a 2-day workshop. Recordings are not made then so no verbal "proof"
is available. Another reason, for you, at least, is that Lazaris
was much less public then (and had, therefore, fewer people interested
in what he had to say) and, would you have paid attention? The
"truth" seems to be that there was no concrete prediction made,
and the reasons for that can only be conjectured. So, here we be!
My predictions? I predict death to all of us. I predict many
infants born this year. I predict gray hairs for me. I predict
more fun!
Frederick
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339.17 | I have a few myself... | DECWET::MITCHELL | Memory drugs: just say ..uh.. | Fri Oct 09 1987 20:17 | 7 |
| RE: .15
At least your meter is good, Steve (except for that last line...
anacrusis maybe?).
JOhn M.
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339.18 | Yes, it was predicted beforehand. | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Fri Oct 16 1987 20:57 | 15 |
| As I watched the stock market drop this week, I was reminded
of something else Lazaris predicted at the end of 1986. He told
us that the stock market (which is, he said, a consciousness of its own)
would rise to around 2500 or so (Dow Jones) and then would drop
about 400 points. He said that it should happen around April or
so. A couple of months later, he told us that it had shown a great
deal of [resistance] (my word, 'cuz I can't remember his) and that
it would definitely fall but obviously not at the time he had foretold.
...incidentally, he said not to panic, because our economy would
correct itself and would rebound. Anyway, this is available on
tape, should anyone wish to here it for him/herself.
Frederick
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339.19 | Not much of a prediction | SSDEVO::YOUNGER | There are no misteakes | Mon Oct 19 1987 14:15 | 7 |
| Don't want to throw cold water on Lazaris' prediction, but predicting
that the stock market will fall about 400 points "sometime in the
future" is a pretty sure bet - kind of like predicting that there
will be a major snowstorm in Colorado in the future.
Elizabeth
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339.20 | Maybe, maybe not. | CLUE::PAINTER | | Mon Oct 19 1987 14:57 | 15 |
|
Re.-last few
Given that the market was up so high, it was probably destined (:^)
to fall at some point, so that comment is true...however, this IS a
major fall, so the question is if Lazaris predicted that it would
happen all at once or gradually over a longer period of time. Some
of the market watchers said that this is the worst fall since the
Depression. Not sure if this takes inflation into account or if
it is a direct comparison of the drop then vs. the drop now.
BTW, DEC opened at 157 this morning according to Livewire.
Cindy
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339.21 | | AKOV11::FRETTS | Shine your Spirit! | Mon Oct 19 1987 15:06 | 10 |
|
Well, I thought it might be timely to put in a repeat of Nostradamus'
prediction of a _major_ earthquake in this country in either late
April/early May of 1988.
Let's hope this one doesn't happen either.
Carole
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339.22 | | AKOV11::FRETTS | Shine your Spirit! | Mon Oct 19 1987 15:09 | 10 |
|
....and then there's the fellow (whose name escapes me) who has
written the book "The Great Depression of 1990". If that one
happens, we won't be using this notesfile anymore, and verifying
predictions in this note will be the _last_ things on our minds!
Carole
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339.23 | It's all relative.... | CLUE::PAINTER | | Mon Oct 19 1987 15:19 | 5 |
|
I always laugh when I hear the comment that economists have
accurately predicted 12 out of the last 5 recessions!
Cindy
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339.24 | The "correction" continues | HPSCAD::DDOUCETTE | Common Sense Rules! | Mon Oct 19 1987 16:50 | 4 |
|
According to reports, the stock market dropped 300 (*!*) points
today, 200 in the first two hours, and then attempted to rebound
by lunch. God knows what it's going to be like by 5:00.
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339.25 | common sense _does_ rule. :-D | ERASER::KALLIS | Make Hallowe'en a National holiday. | Mon Oct 19 1987 17:24 | 7 |
| Re .24:
>God knows what it's going to be like by 5:00.
Closed for the day. ;-)
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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339.26 | | AKOV11::FRETTS | Shine your Spirit! | Mon Oct 19 1987 17:40 | 8 |
|
RE: .24, .25
It dropped by over 500!
C.
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339.27 | Look out Belowwwww..... | KYOMTS::COHEN | Dynamo Hum........ | Mon Oct 19 1987 18:43 | 10 |
| The decline of 507 points makes the crash of '29 look like a
day at the beach.
I understand that much of the decline was due to program trading.
Over 600 million shares were traded today!
People tell me that on this Black Monday; Computers were jumping
out of the windows! (Nobody predicted that would happen!)
.....Bob on Wall St.
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339.28 | Look, again, but not from fear. | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Tue Oct 20 1987 01:48 | 31 |
|
RE: Elizabeth
Personally, I don't think you are giving credit where it is
due...twenty-one months ago Lazaris predicted a 2000 point Dow Jones
by the end of 1986. In December of 1986 it was around 1900. At
the time of his talk, to predict a Dow Jones of around 2500-2600
points seemed extravagant.
I think, based on the history of the Dow Jones, that very few
people would have predicted a 400-point drop.
(The Dow did get to 2000 shortly after that talk.) Later,
in March or April or thereabouts, he talked about the tenaciousnous
of the Dow Jones consciousness and talked about us creating a different
reality than we could have (or *should* have according to the energies
we had in the December past.) He still verified that the Dow Jones
would, in fact, "correct" itself by the amounts he had predicted.
It should be clear to any person who listens to Lazaris that he
never says "this will happen," and that he instead *suggests* that
"this *probability* will happen unless there is a change in energy."
Can it really be that disturbing to us to think that our probable
futures can be predicted? As an exercise, Elizabeth, you could probably
get ahold of the year-end tapes from the past several years and enumerate
both the predictions and then those that missed/succeeded. I think you
will find, (as I mentioned several months ago,) that virtually all of them
either "came to pass" or were explainable within the framework of
the understanding implicitly necessary in the message he has taken
a great deal of time trying to convey.
Frederick
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339.29 | When Push Comes to Shove | CAMLOT::COFFMAN | Unable to Dance, I will crawl | Tue Oct 20 1987 10:15 | 13 |
| < Note 339.27 by KYOMTS::COHEN "Dynamo Hum........" >
-< Look out Belowwwww..... >-
>> Computers were jumping
>> out of the windows! (Nobody predicted that would happen!)
Bob,
Are you sure they weren't pushed! :-)
- Howard
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339.30 | Fear is not the only source of doubt. | PBSVAX::COOPER | Topher Cooper | Tue Oct 20 1987 12:00 | 22 |
| RE: .28
There are really three different questions:
1) Can the future be predicted? (Only the totaly insane would
say no -- if I push my mug off my desk, I can predict with
very high reliability that it will fall).
2) Can the future be predicted without the aid of projections
based on current models of cause and effect? (i.e., does
precognition exist?)
3) Has an accurate example of 2, or even a difficult example
of 1 occurred in a specific case?
One can accept the answer to 2 is yes and still meaningfully ask
3. Your sentence starting with "Can it really..." grossly confuses
those two questions. It implies that the only possible reason for
doubting Lazaris' prescience is to doubt the possibility of anyone
displaying prescience.
Topher
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339.31 | The Stockmarket--alive? | ARMORY::CLAYR | | Tue Oct 20 1987 15:38 | 30 |
|
re: previous replies
It looks to me like Lazaris' prediction was essentially correct.
When I went out at lunchtime I had heard that the stock market opened
200 points higher than the close yesterday, in other words that
the recovery also foreseen has already begun. I have to say that
I also agree with what Frederick says, that only probabilities are
predicted rather than absolute future events, for the reason that
everything existing or taking place is always being affected by
the "consciousnesses" around it (who basically control and create
everything that is, if you subscribe to the YCYOR perspective).
So when you are "reading" the future what you are really doing
is tuning in to something within some other focus of consciousness.
Instead of an "objective" external cause-and-effect that is responsible
for events, imagine that our world is just an interplay of all of
the different consciousnesses existing in it and their creations.
This is a pretty esoteric way of looking at it but it makes the
most sense when trying to understand so many of the unexplainable
or complex processes we see everyday.
Also, something else aroused my imagination: Frederick says
that Lazaris (sp?) says the stock market is a consciousness in and
of itself. But if so, what are its different characteristics? What
are its ambitions, drives and motivations--what is it like as a
personality? Strange questions but fascinating nonetheless.
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339.32 | Let's take a look at the Predictions... | HPSCAD::DDOUCETTE | Common Sense Rules! | Wed Oct 21 1987 09:15 | 12 |
| It's now Wednesday. We've gone through two days of Market upheavals
never experienced before in history. The first day we had the largest
drop in history of the DJIA, the second day the DJIA was a roller
coaster ride, changing over 600 points during the day, about TEN TIMES
the normal change. Both days had record-breaking trade by a factor of
two over a previous record set last week. The average stock lost
20% Monday, and another 10% Tuesday.
Alright, people can always predict a drop, but what about "wild
Tuesday?" Did anyone predict the reaction AFTER the drop?
Dave
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339.33 | Erratic -> Drop | AOXOA::STANLEY | Steal your face right off your head... | Wed Oct 21 1987 11:16 | 4 |
| Ok, I predict that the market will continue to be erratic until it stops
being erratic. I think that there will be a big drop at that time.
Dave
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339.34 | No No No, that not what I mean | HPSCAD::DDOUCETTE | Common Sense Rules! | Wed Oct 21 1987 12:46 | 2 |
| Have any famous psychics/channelers/whatever predict the last few
days, or did this surprise everyone?
|
339.35 | I predict snow in January! | GRECO::MISTOVICH | | Wed Oct 21 1987 13:07 | 13 |
339.36 | Wait a bit... | AOXOA::STANLEY | Steal your face right off your head... | Wed Oct 21 1987 14:53 | 7 |
| Re: < Note 339.34 by HPSCAD::DDOUCETTE "Common Sense Rules!" >
> -< No No No, that not what I mean >-
Well, anyway, my prediction still holds. Let's see what happens in the
next bunch of months.
Dave
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339.37 | Aw, jeepers, Mary! | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Wed Oct 21 1987 19:25 | 56 |
| re: .35 (Mary)
Gad! You are "right", of course, but from my perspective you've
missed the rocket. The original, December talk had Lazaris talking
about the forthcoming year (primarily) and the energies which were
present at that time which would lead to the probability. In March
or April or thereabouts, he "shifted" his prediction to say that
there had been a tenacity by the stock market "consciousness" to
avoid the collapse when it would have happened before, but that
nonetheless it would happen.
Mary, you can't have it both ways...either you create your own
reality or you are fixed into some pre-destiny! If it is true that
we create our own reality (as I believe we do) then OF COURSE we
can turn events around...we can miraculously stop cancers, avoid
nuclear disasters (such as Chernobyl,) or get jobs that we had
"no chance" of getting. (This is only an infinitessimally small
sample of examples, please.) Why should it surprise you that the
prediction didn't happen exactly as "programmed?" This isn't just
random probability, either. This was a significant statement, the
*spirit* of which was essentially predicted. There was enough "energy"
available (an this is a separate discussion in and of itself) to
"change" the probable future. I've noticed many, many of your notes
with much room for optimism and positive reality creation. Why
are you contradicting the beauty of that by somehow adopting a
viewpoint which suddenly denies us the opportunity to change what
we have or probably will have? I forget the name of the book, but
it was written about 15 years ago and it concerned itself with the
future forecasts by the "Club of Rome". Many of the things that
those scientists predicted, should have happened by now (such as
oil shortages, pollution problems, etc.) but they haven't. Why
not? Is it because they were stupid or lacked awareness? I think
not. I think it's because there were enough of us on this planet
who decided that that isn't the future we want or wasn't the future
we were planning. This "consciousness" literally changed the outcome
of that particular predicted future. So, in this case, there was
a change in our consciousness...enough to postpone the fall of the
DJIA and enough to make it more dramatic than "predicted." Similarly,
in December of 1983 Lazaris predicted violence at the 1984 L.A.
Olympics and it didn't happen. Whoa! That looks bad for Lazaris,
doesn't it? Think about it...a couple of months later the Soviet
Union and their allies dropped out of the Olympics. Doesn't that
change the probability a great deal? You bet it does. Thankfully
for most Americans there were enough people who heard this message
and were concerned enough about its possibility to WANT to make
it different. And you know what, Mary? They succeeded. This is
called "creating your reality" and I am very disappointed that you
(since you usually show more *enlightenment* than this) failed to
see or understand this. I will just consider it a lapse in your
consciousness and let it go at that, okay?
Predicting an event for the distant future is exceptionally
difficult, if not impossible, especially (as I believe) as we
(or ME---I) take more conscious responsibility for the world in
which we live.
This editorial has been brought to you by
Frederick
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339.38 | I just couldn't let this go by | DECWET::MITCHELL | Choose short personal names because | Wed Oct 21 1987 22:18 | 33 |
| RE: .37 (Frederick)
We have some problems here:
> you can't have it both ways...either you create your own reality or
you are fixed into some pre-destiny! <
> Many of the things that [the Club of Rome] predicted, should have
happened by now (such as oil shortages, pollution problems, etc.) but
they haven't.... I think it's because there were enough of us on this
planet who decided that that isn't the future we want or wasn't the
future we were planning. This "consciousness" literally changed the
outcome of that particular predicted future. <
In other words, a majority of like-minded people *predestine* the future
for the remainder!
RE: the "predictions" of Lazaris
OK, so Lazaris "predicts" that there will be violence at the 1983 Olympic
games. When it doesn't happen, the excuse is that the event was "prevented"
by people who heard his prediction and "willed" it not to happen. If such
is the case, then Lazaris is no better at predicting the future than I.
If I said that the world were going to blow up tomorrow, and it didn't,
then I would simply counter by saying "that's because someone willed it
not to happen." Such pronouncements are worthless, as the prophet is always
given an excuse for being wrong!
But then, this is typical of Lazaris's sayings.
John M.
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339.39 | don't read in more than is necessary. | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Thu Oct 22 1987 01:30 | 60 |
| re: -.1
Oh, Johnny! In the first place, I have not heard Lazaris put
much emphasis on predicting a "solid" future. I think somewhere
within these notes I talked about going to a psychic as being
essentially a waste of time unless you are going there to see what
you've given your *power* (defined here as the ability to act) away
to. If you create your own reality (and, again, I submit that we
do) then what kind of future do you want? (And for this, I will
review what I have stated before, this means what kind of future
do you REALLY want, not the kind of future you SAY you want...for
more, find the appropriate note in 358.) So, basically, understand
that *most of us* (in my reality, at least) do NOT have dominion
over the physical plane, *most of us* have NOT eliminated our
negative egos from our lives, and *most of us* adhere with great
tenacity to a consensus reality of limitation and predictability.
So it comes as no surprise to me at all (and shouldn't to you, either)
that in so doing we give ourselves over to predictable events with
predictable outcomes. That being the case, it is therefore much
easier to predict the so-called future. Lazaris is doing only what
our reality allows within it. Could someone else do it? Sure,
why not? But in terms of accuracy it becomes more and more difficult
as those of us (I hate to use the term New AGers, here, but I guess
it is as appropriate here as not) who are *beginning* to recognize
our power are wresting back away from that goofy consensus and are
instead deciding (remember our talks about choices and decisions?)
to create the reality we want to. The word belief has come up again
and again. It has import as well as impact, for me. IT really
does come down to *core* or bottomline beliefs. If you believe
the consensus reality, then it will probably bear out for you...
at least to some level.
When Lazaris predicts something, I pay much more attention
than virtually anyone else saying something (you included, John-
sorry) because I believe he understands to a greater depth and
*sees* much more than we do. That still doesn't mean it will
bear out. We can still change. Lazaris is not about predictions.
That's not his schtick! He is about showing us that we create
our own reality. If this is what you get, this is what you have
created. If you want something else (free from ego, at the core
belief level) then you will have it. Think about something else
for a second, here. What if Lazaris said that a nuclear blast
would rip Atlanta apart tomorrow? Can you imagine the panic
that would ensue? He has said over and over again that he is not
here to save us, for we determine when our lives are to start or
stop. Would you really expect him to save us? From what? To what?
Would we change because of the saving? Would we recognize it?
You see, change is internal, not external. We change, and our reality
changes. If our reality changes without our conscious effort,
then have we changed?
I really suggest very strongly that you not make assertions
about Lazaris' statements when *in fact* you do not know his
statements. I have stated many times that I give you MY
interpretation. Someone else could have a different interpretation.
Someone who listens only to a secondary source is only able to
reflect on that source, not the original. Be careful of what
you attempt to show awareness of, for you are only arguing for
your own limitations.
Frederick
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339.40 | Omni sais | SALES::RFI86 | | Thu Oct 22 1987 15:12 | 4 |
| The latest issue of Omni magazine has a huge article on all of this.
I'd type it in but it is huge.
Geoff
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339.41 | An addendum to last week. Don't sell! | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Mon Oct 26 1987 19:23 | 54 |
| (...an addendum to some prior notes...)
At yesterday's workshop in San Francisco, Lazaris started off
talking about the stock market collapse of last week (especially
since it was so directly related to the topic "Ending Self-Sabotage.")
Though he didn't mention his earlier predictions, he did add that
the small investor will bring it back (a recovery) but that it will
take "a while." He said further that the collapse occurred for
these four reasons:
1. Secretary of the Treasury's Baker making/doing something that
had to do with floating the U.S. dollar against the German mark.
This was (metaphysically) due to a figurative as well as a literal
breech of confidence.
2. Panic
3. Institutional computer trading. Though technology is or should
be only a tool, it became the source of the problem because
our power was turned over to the tool. He called this a breech
of power and responsibility.
4. Uncertainty of individuals. Due to our deficit trading situation
(we are the planet's greatest deficit nation.) This is a breech
of confidence situation, again.
How this deals with sabotage is that it deals with our feeling
so little control over it. (This is one of the components of self-
sabotage, which I do not wish to go into here.)
As a point of interest, perhaps, he told of Peny and Michael
hearing about the collapse while they were out shopping and quietly
and quickly figuring out their possible losses (based on 25% loss
since that is how much of the market had failed that day.) Well,
later, after consulting with Lazaris (who told them not to worry
about it) they discovered that they had not lost a single dollar
with their investments [I know neither how much they have invested,
though I assume a sizable amount, nor where they have invested.]
The point is that though a reality can look quite hopeless for many
or even most individuals (the "consensus reality") we can,
individually, create a different reality than that, and, eventually,
cause a shift in the consensus, which will therefore create a different
consensus reality. Obviously, Michael and Peny and Jach have consulted
with Lazaris before about their investments, and have been well
aware of the potential and probable futures, but they took "heed"
of his *predictions* to the extent of creating a different future
than that. This, of course, will seem to be only conjecture for
many of the readers of this conference...let it suffice that the
information has been presented and reasons have been given for events
and methods that could elude a probable future and make it become
whatever one would desire it to be. As easy as that? No, not without
work, but via responsibility and conviction.
I really don't care to dispute this information or argue about
it...hopefully, you will read it and think whatever you will and
let it go.
Frederick
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339.42 | Sorry there, devil.... | CLUE::PAINTER | Trying to reside in n+1 space | Tue Oct 27 1987 10:30 | 8 |
|
OMIGOSH! The 'computers' made them do it!
Hal, Hal, are you there Hal?
dodododododododo
Cindy
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339.43 | CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR! | GRECO::MISTOVICH | | Tue Oct 27 1987 12:49 | 54 |
339.44 | on the last few | USMRM5::MASS | | Wed Oct 28 1987 12:25 | 24 |
| RE: .41
I find all those "Depression of 19XX" books very depressing.
RE: Lazarus & the stock market
Unfortunately it seems that the only way that people will believe
Lazarus or any other "knowing entity" ( Merill Lynch etc :^)) has
superior knowledge is 1) For all their predictions to come true,
and 2) They were the only ones on the face of the earth to be correct.
That is not to say that I personally believe Lazarus, or for that
matter believe IN Lazarus. What I am saying is that if Jane Pauley
on the Today show said that the market would go up today, and Lazarus
said the same thing - somebody would insist that Lazarus does nothing
more special that watch NBC in the morning. It may just be, on
the other hand, that Lazarus did not watch the Today show to get
the information. Perhaps he cnannels Jane Pauley! 8^D
Marion
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339.45 | | MANTIS::PARE | What a long, strange trip its been | Thu Jan 14 1988 15:53 | 3 |
| Take Care, Oh Children Of The Light
The Mushroom rises in the night
Across the land where Jesus stood
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339.46 | How about something more positive? | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Thu Jan 14 1988 17:00 | 6 |
| RE: .45
YUCK!!! ...talk about negativity!
Frederick
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339.47 | per your request ... | INK::KALLIS | Has anybody lost a shoggoth? | Thu Jan 14 1988 17:10 | 8 |
| Re .46 (Fredrick):
Okay --
The mushroon grows and then is plucked;
Into a souffle then is tucked;
Nourishment of body feeds the mind;
War-clouds die, the land is kind.
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339.48 | Kudos | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Thu Jan 14 1988 17:14 | 9 |
| re: -.1
Bravo!! That was MUCH better!
Thank you.
Frederick
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339.50 | And why does everybody keep using it? | BSS::BLAZEK | Dancing with My Self | Thu Jan 14 1988 18:12 | 7 |
| re: .48 (Frederick)
You know, I've been wanting to ask this for eons -- what
in the world is a "kudo"??? The candy bar??
Carla
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339.51 | Did someone say anything about dripping chocolate? | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Thu Jan 14 1988 18:53 | 10 |
| Carla ("wind-through-valleys")
My first exposure to the word came in TIME magazine a couple
of decades ago. I use it as they use it. (What I take it as is
as an acknowledgement...a "thank you", even...usually for some
noteworthy accomplishment(s).)
What candy bar? Is that anything like a MARS candy bar?
Frederick
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339.52 | kudo <- Japanese? | CSC32::M_BAKER | | Thu Jan 14 1988 20:04 | 3 |
| I thought it was a Japanese word. I heard it a lot in Okinawa.
Mike
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339.54 | Sure, Paul Liv(s)! | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Thu Jan 14 1988 21:55 | 8 |
| re: Paul
Next time I see her I'll speak to her straight-away about it!
:-)
Frederick
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339.55 | Kudos. | PBSVAX::COOPER | Topher Cooper | Fri Jan 15 1988 10:27 | 7 |
| RE: .50
It means public acknowledgment and thanks. According to my dictionary
(the paperback American Heritage) its from a Greek word meaning
glory or fame.
Topher
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339.56 | Kudos all around! | CLUE::PAINTER | Remembering the Challenger | Mon Jan 18 1988 12:59 | 16 |
|
Aw, Topher, we were just getting going! (;^)
Back on the topic:
I predict that the words 'fantasy' and 'reality' will be more closely
linked together in the future. From the DEC issued blue dictionary:
fantasy, n., pl. - sies. 1. The creative imagination. 2. A product
of the imagination; illusion. 3. A delusion. 4. A capricious or
whimsical notion or idea; conceit. 5. A daydream. 6. A fantasia.
reality, n., pl. - ities. 1. The condition or quality of being
real or true. 2. Something that is real.
Cindy
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339.57 | Feelin' Groovey | BSS::BLAZEK | Dancing with My Self | Mon Jan 18 1988 13:54 | 9 |
| re: .56 (Cindy)
I hereby second, support, and subscribe to your prediction.
I, for one, would love to turn my fantasies into realities.
No exceptions.
Carla
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339.58 | I fantasize dripping chocolate on someone... | PUZZLE::GUEST_TMP | HOME, in spite of my ego! | Wed Jan 20 1988 21:51 | 13 |
| re: -.1
No exceptions? That sounds a bit scary to me. I have many
fantasies, many of which I would not like to live out. I'm not
talking solely about ego fantasies, either. Sometimes I have
deliberately gone into meditation and "fantasized" "Beating the
hell out of someone" or turning into a toad or some such thing.
It's great for meditations but not for my conscious reality.
If, on the other hand, you are talking about positive fantasies,
then *I'm with you.*
Frederick
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339.59 | For the record | HSSWS1::GREG | Malice Aforethought | Sat Feb 04 1989 02:13 | 21 |
|
My predictions:
* Ollie North will publish a book detailing his account
of his life. The book will gather dust on the booksellers
shelves for 12 weeks, and will then be marked down and
tossed in the bargain book bin, where it will gather
some more dust.
* The price of Digital stock will soar to 148/share by
May, and will drop to 122/share in June, then continue
on an upward trend until the next buy-in time.
* Everyone who reads this note will die before reaching
the age of 172. None of you will return from the grave.
* I will make more predictions, whether or not these come
to pass.
- Greg
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339.61 | Anita Bryant | CLUE::PAINTER | Wage Peace | Mon Feb 06 1989 18:40 | 14 |
|
Re.-1
I have to throw in a good word for Anita - she was forced into that
campaign by her ultra-fundamentalist husband and local minister (her
story told in "Right Wing Women" by Dworkin and "The Second Stage"
by Betty Friedan). She also ended up divorcing the guy. As for
the OJ industry, well, they dumped her after she dumped her husband
and said "The contract had to expire because of the divorce and
so forth." She filed suit, however I don't know the outcome. Anyway...
I enjoyed the rest. (;^)
Cindy
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